your headlines on press the vfresh israely strikes on the gaza strip leaves nearly 100 palestinians dead as death toll from the on slaught is fast approaching 30,000. figures show israel has intensified the demolition of palestinian homes in the occupied al quds since the onset of the aggression in the besege gazasrip. and iran says the us and the uk are escalating tensions and crisis in the region by launching air strikes on yemen.

hello everyone, you're watching press tv live from the studios in tehan, thank you for joining us. the us really genocidal war on gaza is in its 142nd day with continued massive airal and artillery strikes on the besieg strip. according to the health ministry in gaza, israely attacks have killed at least 86 palestinians in the last 24 hours. israely war planes bombed the residential block in baidlahya north of gaza killing and injuring number of civilians. meanwhile, the israely army carried out multiple aerial and artillery attacks on alzheetun neighborhood in the south of gaza of city with numerous victims remaining trapped under the rubble. nearly 29,700 people have been killed in israeli attacks in gaza since october the 7th. most of them are women and children. the head of the un agency for

palestinian refugees calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed into gaza where people are grappling with severe shortages of food, water and medicine. felipeni said the delivery of vital aid can prevent famin in the palestinian territory. he described as a man-made disaster, the die humanitarian conditions in gaza. the onruar chief added that the agency has been unable to transfer food aid to northern. gaza for over a month. in recent weeks, the onraw has been facing israely cause for its abolition. the agency's major donors suspended funding following israel's allegations that some unrous staff members were involved in palestinians a flood operation early october. regarding food scarcity in gaza, the un itself has voiced consent that almost everyone is at risk of famin. in recent days a number of children have... died from malnutrition in gaza.

earlier we spoke to our correspondent mooti abu musap in gaza, he said israel is killing people who look for food, shelter and medicine all across gaza. the latest israeli attack actually targeted a group of the palestina civilians who were waiting for the convoys of the humanitarian relief heading to gaza city. thousands of the palestinian civilians were reporttedly killed and injured. it's not worthy that this is not the first time the israeli occupation forces targeted target the palestinian people waiting for the humanitarian aid heading to gaza city in a way uh that prevents the palestinian people to get any real access to the basic humanitarian needs in this in the meantime the israeli occupation forces also maintain their attacks against uh sheikh ridwan neighborhood in the same city in gaza city where. "another group of the palestinian

civilians was targeted uh using the israeli of fighter drones uh near a sheik ruani clinic they were gathering in order to get the needed medical care the israeli incubation forces started them and killed many and killed and injured many of them while in a zitoon neighborhood as you know that the israeli occupation forces are still beliagoring the neighborhood and it's under the heavy bombardments of the israeli air strikes and the israeli attacks of the israeli tanks" on the ground, several palestinian houses were destroyed using the explosive devices, leaving at least 10 palestinian sevilians dead over those continuous and seasless attacks reaching the reaching the neighborhood. israel has stepped up it's demolition of palestinian homes in the occupied al-quds since it started the regime's devastating war against the gaza strip. we have discussed this issue with our guests in our news review program. let's take a look. time now for uh the news review on

press tv state. tuned: the figures showed that israel has been exploiting the global attention on the genocide in gaza to ramp up demolition of palestinian homes in the occupied all goods. during the first nine months of last year, israel destroyed 97 palestinian homes on the east side of the city, but since launching its steadly onslot in gaza early october, israel has build those 87 homes. now those figures are according to amen, local nonprofit organization, monitoring home demolitions in algots. activists say that israel is trying to drive more palestinians out of east algos, the regime is trying to justify its much criticized practice by claiming that the houses have been built without permits. however, it's practically made it impossible for palestinians to obtain those documents

through legal discrimination. now let me invite two guests to this edition. one. our correspondent joining me from ramala. also with me is masin komsia, palestinian scientists and author in bethlehem, good to see you both. uh, let's begin with you, tell us about these home demolitions that we just talk about it, and this has been going the past four or five months since the onslot on gaza started. unfortunately, the israeli regime and the israeli u let's say authorities in al-quds, they refused to give palestinians permits in order to allow them construct their homes or even expand their homes insides and it's very clear, they want the palestinians out of the city of al-quds,

at the same time the israeli jewish setlers are given a green light to build the new settlements, to expand their units and build new units inside. al quds, so while the palestinians are not given israeli issued permits to construct their homes to expand their their flats and their homes, these israels are given more permets in order to build the new illegal settlement on the palestinian lands in as you have mentioned the israels since the uh in the first nine months of 2023 97 palestinian homes were destroyed. in al-quds, however, since the 7th of october, 87 homes were destroyed by the israels insides several days ago, in sinwan, there's fakh, this palestinian activist, and he is the spokesperson of sw and his home

himself was destroyed by the israel, he was surprised by the israel's trying to destroy his home, and the excuse is always ready that the... palestinians homes are being destroyed because of the lack of israeli issued payments. uh, thanks for that. nowzin com tell us about the what the israeli regime has its minds on the plan, you know, it's engaged in this genocidal war in gaza, at the same time it has the abductions and rates against the uh west bank, and simultaneously again, we're now speaking about uh home demolitions that's still going. yes, indeed, in 2023, what we saw is more than doubling the number of houses demolished 2022, that coincided with the bring in the israeli right-wing

government, fascist government that decided to increase ethnic, nearly quarter of the homes that were... demolished for actually homes built with foreign aid and local aid to replace homes that were demolished earlier so second turn demolition here in the last time district for example alja they had homes demolished just in the past few days and this continues it's it's a longstanding policy but it has increased. in 2023 compared to 2022 and has increased even further after october 7, in the last four and a half months, there were more homes demolished than than 2022 put together. all right, thank you so much. our

correspondent in ramala andsia, palestinian scientist and author in bethlehem. and thank you for watching this episode of the news review on press tv. welcome back the us says talks in the french capital paris reach the understanding on the outlines of a truece deal in gaza between israel and the palestinian resistance move in hamas. white house national security advisor jake sullivan, stressed that the details of the agreement, including a prison exchange, are still under discussion. the representatives of israel, the us, egypt and qatar launched the fresh round of cease fire talks in paris on friday. the negotiations have resumed in the qatari capital doha between the four countries as well as hamas represent. israel is under pressure from the international community, including its allies, to stop his

genocidal war in gaza. hamas has been demanding a complete and permanent cease fire as well as the full withdrawal of israeli troops from gaza, terms which israel has rejected. palestine has risen from the ashes. the nation has gone a long way in its struggle against. the occupation regime of israel from throwing stone to flying drones, but who can deny iran's decades long support in this arduous journey?

welcome back! american british fighter jets have carried out fresh strikes across yemen in the fourth joint operation against the arab country. they are strikes at the provinces of sana, thais and hajja. several locations including pesticide factory and telecommunications networks. targeted, this comes as the yemeni army has targeted an american oil tanker and several warships with missiles in the red sea and the gulf of athen. the yemani army says such operations will continue in response to attacks by the us and the uk and in solidarity with palestinians in gaza. meanwhile, heran has denounced the latest strikes on yemen, saying washington and london are seeking escalate tensions and crises in the region. thousands of pro-palestine demonstrators have taken to the streets of the spanish city of barcelona

to demand an immediate cease fire in the gaza strip and call on their government to savatize with the israeli regime. today is the second day that protests have been held in more than 100 cities across the country to call for measures to stop. simplicity in the genocide that has been committed against palestinian people, we demand an end to arm sales to israel. we fully support all those doing this demonstration and we should stop all institutional and economic relations with israel while the regime is being investigated by the international court of justice for genocide. we should stop having an arms trade with israel. the protesters were chanting and the... anti-israel slogans while waving palestinian flags. similar demonstrations were also held in other cities, including the

capital madrid in solidarity with palestinians. earlier, the german city of noremberg was a scene of pro-palestine vallies as well. the protesses there also demanded immediate cease fire in gaza and an end to armed supplies to israel. anti-israel demonstrations were also held in austria. over four months of israel's genocidal war on gaza is taking a heavy toll its economy, new figures have revealed that the regime's gross domestic product product contracted by nearly 20% in the last quarter of 2023. earlier in our explainer program, gisu misha ahmadi discussed this issue in details. let's take a look. uh, when the... news came out to that israel's economy had contracted, that did not surprise anyone, after all israel's onslot

has lasted five months a contraction is only natural, but the amount of the contraction in double digits close to 20%, that was shocking. let's see how israel got there. now, in order for israel to suffer this deep drop and it's gdp, we need to look at how these costs are measured. the costs of waging the onslot have... have knock-on effect when it comes to the economy, one of them is the steep decline economic activity. when that happens, there is a resulting drop in revenue, and from there deficits. spending, which produces borrowing costs, which will weigh on the budgeting long after the fighting ends. given that, one does not need to go that far back to see what israel itself was telling the world when it came to its gdp contraction. it was only in december 2023 when the israeli central bank governor amir yaran said due to the prolonged aggression on

gaza, israel's economy is predicted to contract by around 1% this year, and the gdp and... the debt to gdp ratio is predicted to surpass 65%, but just a month later in january of this year, he said the aggression on gaza will cause the israeli economy 10% of the gdp with the debt to gdp to surpass 66% in 2024. the changing narrative on the gdp reduction was just the beginning of israel's aeronous announcements like in the case of daily costs, so when the aggression began, the daily costs were estimated to... be around $119 million. it did not take long for that figure to change. it shot up after the first month to $200 million. and if that was not enough, israel realized that it had to open its conforts even further since the cost rose to $240 million and then $260 million for it to stand now at $269 million dollars

per day. the labor market disruptions due to the operational flood to the israeli regime were. massive. this is perhaps one of the major reasons for the large gdp contraction. first, the mobilization of israeli reservists. the number is quite high. 400,000 them were deployed to the battlefield. that means that this is important, they were taken out of the workforce. israel had to subsidize their salaries as well. then comes the evacuees. 200,00 evacuees were displaced from villages along. fake gaza border and the northern border with lebanon, and finally israel restricted the work permits of 175,000 palestinian workers, these palestinians work predominantly in the construction and agriculture sector. now here's a breakdown of the labor market and of course how the different sectors of the workers were taken

out. 1,275,00 workers were taken out of total work. force of around 5 million, which is very high number. this amounts to around 25.5% of the workforce, so now, what is the israeli cabinet supposed to do? it faces massive influx in cost, which has triggered a steep increase in spending. israely officials surely did not anticipate the steep increase of 88% in just three months after the outbreak of the enslot compared to the preceeding quarter, consumers meanwile we're spending less, much. less conservative estimates put that at 27%. there is also aspecter of business closures involving small and medium-sized israeli businesses, that is figure that continues to rise. so far, the onslot has led to the closure of around 30,000 businesses, with the restrictions on palestinian workers, the west bank's economy

has suffered heavy 37% decline in production. in times of a military... budget when costs are high, borrowing becomes lifeline to continue a genocidal onslot, but the credit ratings agency, moodies put damper on israel's hopes right there, moodies caught israel's credit rating one notch from a1 to a2, and this was israel's first ever credit downgrade. the reason it gave was israel's poor finances, and also how the economic and political future remained unknown, especially due to israel's mil military exchanges with hesbollah, given all the different expenses the ensaut, israel will need to borrow almost 58 billion dollars this year, which equates nearly $23,000 per household, and three times the amount of the fiscal deficit in 2022. if all of this is too much information, let's just summarize this uh segment in one shot,

there it is, much of the slide and gross domestic products stemmed from 26.9% drop in private consumption in the october to december period, a sharp decline of 42.4% in the import of goods and services and 18.3% dive in exports and 67.8% decline in investment, especially in residential building. meanwhile, spending surged 88.1% due to the onsl. cost, top of that, consumers were spending 27% less. finally, this aggression was supposed to initially cost $50 billion us. dollars to cost israel's economy 10% of his gdp, but the onslot has lasted five months, if the most recent report has said that it's cost the israeli economy

almost 20% of its gdp. does this mean that the actual cost of the onslot will be around $100 billion dollars? that's something to think about. and successfully completed repairing the nationwide gas pipe. applies which were damaged by sabotage attacks recently, the lines are now fully operational, our correspondent kisum ahmadi visited the sites during the repair operations and found this report. repair operations in the final stages, this is the main distribution pipeline passing through iran's southwestern province of charmahaal and baxtiari responsible for delivering natural gas to the northern provinces of iran. part of the main pipeline hit by two explosions on february 14th. this is the exact location where the first explosion took place, the result of a failed sabotage attack

aimed at disrupting gas supplies to the entire province. clearly the saboteurs had picked this remote location hoping that it would result in delayed emergency response leading to vast natural gas outages in the country, an obvious miscalculation as the national iranian gas company and dc had its local technicians and first responders on site in less than 10 minutes. the tall flames resulting from the overnight explosion could be seen from miles away. the explosion was immense, creating a huge fire that burned and melted everything its way, 300 meters away. power cables were damaged, the local electricity distribution company immediately diverted to other connected paths to prevent power outages and within minutes, local nigc technicians arrived. as a result of great

teamwork, we were able to contain the fire in less than 5 hours, and we completed our repair operation within 44 hours, which can be considered a record. it is important to note that our local technicians were able to quickly bring the situation under control without any help from nearby provinces. that is why there were no disruptions in gas supplies. as a result of the nigc's agile response, the sabotage attack did not lead to any natural gas outages. so this is the pipe that was damaged by the explosion, pipe that would carry 70 million cubic meters of natural gas in 24 hours. the nigc had two separate alternative options, so as a first step technicians.

pipe replaced with new one, everything is back to normal. this heavily damaged 42-inch pipe that you see right behind me, as part of the main pipeline that takes natural gas from the south of iran towards the north. however, the nigc did have a plan b, and therefore the explosion did not disrupt gas supplies. officials detailed that because the fire sparked in an unpopulated area, the spread of the flames was manageable for the responding firefighters. there were no casualties and only limited material damage, and since the flow of heat and cooking gas to the northern provinces was not disrupted, as far as

consumers were concerned, basically nothing happened, simply foild attempt with iranians now more confident than ever in the capabilities of nigc technicians. gisumi shah ahmadi, press tv, boruchen. those with top stories on press tv, thank you for being with us, take care and bye-bye.

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hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marizia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. several international agencies are confirming the dire situation in gaza, according to save the children organiz all 1.1 million children in gaza are facing death by starvation or disease. the world food program stopped aid deliveries to the north because of security concerns and talked about the unprecedented levels of desperation.